Kiss Me, Mom! (2013)

Kiss Me, Mom! 2013 / 媽，親一下！ 2013 / Ma, Qing Yi Xia , 妈，亲一下！

The story chronicles the year when the life of Giddens Ko was more like a movie than real life. The joy and sadness of a life time was crammed into one year. The year he won the Best Writer award was also the year the pillar of his family, his mother, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. The boys in the family had to pull their big boy pants up as they navigated through the confusing healthcare system, the painful chemotherapy, and the crushing medical debt. While they cared for their mother, their love lives moved along at super speed. His elder brother got married, his younger brother got a girlfriend, and his long-time girlfriend broke up with him. ~~ Adapted from the novel ‟Kiss Me, Mom!‟ (媽，親一下！) by Giddens Ko.